Thesis (PhD) - Swinburne University of Technology, Industrial Research Institute Swinburne - 2007. / [A thesis submitted] for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Industrial Research Institute, Swinburne University of Technology - 2007. Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (p. 154-167).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2007. / Title from first page of PDF file. Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-249).

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Thesis (M.Sc.)(Metallurgy)--University of Pretoria, 2004. / Includes summary. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (MScEng) -- Stellenbosch University, 2003. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: High Speed Cutting (HSC), specifically milling is a significant contemporary development in machining. The Die and Mould industry is experiencing a difficult business climate. There is competitive pressure for shorter lead times and lower prices. Companies worldwide, are under financial pressure, to meet the challenges of a globalised business environment. The conventional position of milling and Electric Discharge Machining (EDM / Erosion) is discussed with the proposal to use HSC and EDM as complementary processes. Among new developments the progress in computer infrastructure is prominent. There is also a paradigm shift that should be made from experience based process planning to modern, up to date knowledge based process planning. High Speed Cutting is now a mature process capable of acceptable process security. The examples detailed include crankshaft-forging tooling, injection moulding tooling and powder sintering tooling. A process chain is proposed for the complementary HSC / EDM process with estimated illustrative time saving over the conventional EDM dominated process. HSC will be the first process removing the bulk of the material, finishing as far as possible and with EDM finally machining the features that will be difficult or impossible with HSC. To facilitate the use of the complementary processes a decision model to determine the crossover point between HSC and EDM is proposed. The decision model is firstly presented as a flow diagram to determine whether the task is a candidate for HSC only, EDM only, or the complementary HSC / EDM process. The key parameters e.g tool H d ratio are variables. This is in order that the flow diagram may be adapted to a specific machine tool infrastructure and expertise level in a company. The second part is a HSC machining time estimation model. The time is estimated per segment roughed, semi-finished, or finish machined. The model is in an empirical form with constants that can be adapted to the practices of a specific company. It is intended that the constants also be periodically revised to reflect the development in HSC expertise that will occur during the use HSC in the company. The model is practically evaluated with a case study, including the detail steps, not included in the model. Conceptual guidelines are given for software implementation. It is concluded that HSC and EDM are suitable complementary processes. It is a necessary prerequisite to use pallets to avoid multiple set-ups. Complementary HSC and EDM is especially appropriate for the gradual deployment and skill development for HSC. HSC and complementary HSC / EDM is considered the opportunity for companies to make a major breakthrough in lead time and operating expense if the necessary pallet/fixturing equipment, CAx infrastructure and human capability is available. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hoe Spoed Masjinering (HSC), spesifiek frees is ‘n betekenisvolle ontwikkeling in masjinering. Die Gereedskap en Gietvorm bedryf ervaar ‘n moelike besigheidsklimaat. Daar is kompeterende druk vir korter lewertye en laer pryse. Maatskappye wereldwyd is onder finansiele druk om in die geglobaliseerde besigheidsmilieu te presteer. Die posisie van frees en Elektriese Ontladingsmasjinering (EDM / Vonkerosie) word bespreek met die voorstel om HSC en EDM as komplementere prosesse te gebruik. Onder die nuwe ontwikkelings is daar prominente vooruitgang in rekenaarinfrastruktuur. Daar is ook ‘n paradigmaverskuiwing nodig van ondervinding gebaseerde na op datum kennis gebaseerde proses beplanning. HSC is nou ‘n ontwikkelde proses met voldoende prosessekerheid. Die voorbeelde sluit krukas smee gereedskap, inspuitgiet gereedskap, en poeier-sinter persgereedskap in. ‘n Prosesketting word voorgestel vir die komplementere HSC / EDM proses met ‘n beraamde illustratiewe tydbesparing oor die konvensionele EDM gedomineerde proses. HSC sal die eerste proses wees wat die meerderheid van die materiaal verwyder en oppervlaktes so ver as moontlik afwerk, met EDM wat die finale afwerking doen en ook die masjinering wat vir moeilik haalbaar of onmoontlik is vir HSC. Om die gebruik van die komplementere prosesse te fasiliteer, word ‘n beluitnemingsmodel vir die oorgangspunt tussen HSC en EDM voorgestel. Dit word eerstens as vloeidiagram gebruik om die taak te klassifiseer vir HSC alleen, EDM alleen of vir komplementere HSC en EDM. Die sleutelparameters, bv die beitel 116 verhouding, is veranderlikes. Dit is sodat die vloeidiagram aangepas kan word by ‘n spesifieke masjienvermoe en ‘n kundigheidsvlak in ‘n maatskappy. Die tweede deel is ‘n HSC masjineringstyd model. Die tyd word beraam per segment uitgerof, afgewerk, of finaal afgewerk. Die model is in empiriese vorm met konstantes wat kan aangepas word by die praktyke van ‘n firma. Dit is die bedoeling dat die konstantes periodiek aangepas word om die ontwikkeling te weerspieel wat in die maatskappy plaasvind. Die model word prakties evalueer met ‘n gevallestudie, insluitend die detailstappe, wat nie in die modelformulering ingesluit is nie. Konseptuele riglyne word gegee vir programmatuur implementering. Die gevolgtrekking word gemaak dat HSC en EDM geskikte komplementere prosesse is. Dit is ‘n voorvereiste om pallette te gebruik om veelvuldige opstellings te vermy. Komplementere HSC / EDM is veral toepaslik om HSC geleidelik in ‘n firma te ontplooi en kundigheid te bou. Die HSC / EDM kombinasie word ook die geleentheid geag vir firmas om ‘n deurbraak te maak in lewertyd en bedryfsuitgawes as die nodige pallettoerusting, CAx infrastruktuur en menslike vermoe beskikbaar is.

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:28:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2004-11-30Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:18:33Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 ferreira_ar_me_arafo.pdf: 853886 bytes, checksum: ac8807532f1213d7b8e8c7e98c2c8cb4 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / O estudo avaliou a expansão térmica dos materiais metálicos titânio c.p. (RMI Company, Ohio, EUA), Co-Cr-Mo-W (Dentaurum, Pforzhem, Alemanha) e Ni-Cr (Dentaurum, Pforzhem, Alemanha) para estimar a contração de fundição do titânio e determinou a expansão de presa e térmica dos revestimentos fosfatados Rematitan Plus (Dentaurum, Pforzhem, Alemanha), específico para titânio e Rema Exakt (Dentaurum, Pforzhiem, Alemanha) e Castorit Super C (Dentaurum, Pforzhem, Alemanha). Cada concentração de líquido especial foi variada na proporção de (100%, 75% e 50%) de água destilada, com o objetivo de determinar em que concentração de líquido e em que temperatura a somatória da expansão de presa e térmica seriam suficientes para compensar a contração estimada. Para a dilatometria dos metais padrões de cera com 14 mm de altura e 7 mm de diâmetro foram obtidos a partir de um padrão metálico, em seguida, montados em base formadora de cadinho com o conduto de alimentação e incluídos com cada revestimento na concentração de 100%. Os padrões foram incluídos e aquecidos no forno EDG (EDG - Equipamentos, São Carlos, SP). O Ti c.p. foi fundido na máquina Discovery - Plasma (EDG - Equipamentos, São Carlos, SP), e as outras ligas a fundição ocorreu em máquina de fundição centrífuga convencional. Após o polimento, os corpos de prova foram analisados e a expansão térmica foi registrada no Dilatômetro DIL 409 (Netzch) em atmosfera de ar, numa taxa de aquecimento de 10ºC/min. O Ti c.p. foi aquecido até 1550ºC, o Co-Cr-Mo-W até 1160ºC e o Ni-Cr até 1090ºC. Para a medida da expansão de presa, os revestimentos foram misturados com líquido especial e vertidos no molde de silicone (Siqmol) com cavidade de 50 mm X 10 mm X 10 mm. Uma lâmina de vidro e o apalpador (Tesa)... / This study evaluated the thermal expansion of the metallic materials titanium c.p. (RMI Company, Ohio, USA), Co-Cr-Mo-W (Dentaurum, Pforzhem, Germany) and Ni-Cr-Mo (Dentaurum, Pforzhem, Germany) to estimate the casting shrinkage of titanium and determine the setting and thermal expansion of phosphate-bonded investment materials. This investment used were Rematitan Plus (Dentaurum, Pforzhem, Germany), specific for titanium, Rema Exakt (Dentaurum, Pforzhem, Germany) and Castorit Super C (Dentaurum, Pforzhem, Germany). Each concentration of special liquid/distilled/water was varied in which ratio by 100%, 75% and 50%. This aim of this study was to determine what liquid concentration and temperature the overall expansion could be enough to compensate the casting shrinkage. For the dilatometry of the metals, wax patterns (14 mm X 7 mm) were made, attached to sprue, mounted in and mounted on crucible formers and included in 100% of special liquid. The invested patterns were heated in a burnout EDG (EDE - São Carlos - Brazil). Ti c.p. was casting in the machine Discovery - Plasma (EDG - Equipments, São Carlos, SP), and the other alloys were casting in a conventional centrifugal casting machine. After polishing, the samples were analyzed and the thermal expansion was recorded in the equipment Dilatômetro DIL 409 (Netzch) in air's atmosphere, in a rate of heating of 10ºC/min. The Ti c.p. was heated up to 1550ºC, the Co-Cr-Mo-W up to 1160ºC and Ni-Cr-Mo up to 1090ºC. For measurement of the vertical setting expansion, those investments were mixed with special liquid and invested into silicone moulds of the metal pattern (50 mm x 10 mm x 10 mm). A glass plate and dial gauge were seated on the sample, and after two hours the setting expansion was measured (Se). The distance between the ends (De)...(Complete abstract, click electronic access below)

Responding to the works of artist Rachel Whiteread (b. 1963), this research aims to interrogate the social and spatial experiences of childhood, starting from the personal, childhood memory. Whiteread offers a curious collection of objects, furniture, toys, utensils, photographs and junk. Casting and collecting are Whiteread’s primary methods of artistic creation, of creative play, and these processes are at the centre of this thesis. Casting and collecting transforms objects – their uses and forms, and thus subsequent meanings and associations. Melanie Klein (1882-1960) was an early pioneer of child analysis, developing her distinctive method of the play technique. A key founder of British objects relations theory, Klein’s method incorporated creative play with objects and toys. Klein and Whiteread hold objects in common; play sits alongside casting and collecting. I use Klein’s theories to open up the childhood house of Whiteread and her methods of casting and collecting. The three chapters of this thesis, Closeted Childhoods: Closet (1988); Siblings and Seriality: Untitled [One Hundred Spaces] (1995); A Photographic Portrait of House (1993-94), draw on different aspects of Kleinian and psychoanalytical theory in response to Whiteread’s own childhood memory-work. Kleinian themes addressed include destruction and reparation, guilt and envy, loss and mourning, with the conclusion returning to that first object, the mother, and the presence of the maternal in Whiteread’s works. Primarily, I argue that Whiteread’s sculptural casts and installations are those materialised secrets of hidden and concealed childhoods denied by a mythology of familial unity. Significantly, I consider how the autobiographical childhood remembrance holds relevance for wider concerns of social and spatial experience – public and private.